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Friday, March 02, 2001, updated at 22:21(GMT+8) | ||||||||||||||
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India Test-Fires Surface-to-Air MissileIndia Friday successfully test- fired the indigenously built multi-target surface-to-air missile Akash from the Interim Test Range at Chandipur-On-Sea in east India's Orissa state.According to the Press Trust of India, this is the second time in four days India test-fired Akash. The 650 kilograms missile was fired from a mobile launcher shortly after 1300 hours local time. With a range of 25 kilometers, Akash can deliver 55 kilograms of explosives and has the capacity to strike several targets simultaneously.
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